Bullion Butte Badlands Conservation Alliance Hike

 

Jim Fuglie, Daryl Hill, Ryan Taylor, Clay Jenkinson, Sharon Kilzer, Lillian Crook, Kim Gaugler, Michelle Hardy, Laura Anhalt, Tama Smith, Fletcher and Megan Klassen with their children, August, Quinn and Clark, Bjorn, Marit, Anders, Rene, and Mark Strand, Tracy Potter, and Mike and Cody Vandall (not pictured, Beckie Walby)

East Twin Buttes hike. Photo by Kim Gaugler.

 
 

Bullion Map from Prairie Legacy Wilderness

This illustration by historian Clay Jenkinson shows the location of Theodore Roosevelt's hunting expeditions, and shows how Bullion Butte has caused a detour for the Little Missouri River.

 
 

Beckie Walby, Jim Fuglie, and Lillian Crook. Photo by Clay Jenkinson.

 

“God's Grandeur”

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

 

And for all this, nature is never spent;

    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Read by Clay Jenkinson on the top of Bullion Butte during lunch break, BCA Outing May 29, 2022

 

Clay Jenkinson speaks at the 2021 Annual Meeting at the Bismarck Public Library

 

Books and Maps to Inspire

"Solitude is the deepest well I've encountered in my life..."

— Doug Peacock, Was It Worth It?

 
 
 
Wild BadlandsLillian Crook#49 Summer 2022